Wireless Data

How good is 4G?

Sprint recently made their 4G available in my area and now Comcast is offering a just 4G plan for $30/month if your already a Comcast customer.So I'm wondering how good is this 4G thing? I'm currently using a Sprint 3G data card and see they want another $10/month to upgrade to 4G. But back to my question particularly how good is in building penetration of 4G?

You set yourself up for failure. Wireless signals and buildings or thick object penetration don't quite mix.

I bet its a wonderful device in the park, in a car, or a building that has sufficient enough windows. But if your talking about a parking garage or skyscraper and your not by a window then probably not, you are better off with DSL or Cable.

Well hopefully Verizon's 700mhz spectrum will fix this building penetration problem. Analog tv certainly penetrated buildings just fine before that was shut off, and that used 700mhz, before it was shut off and auctioned off to Verizon (and ATT, but they dont' seem to actually have any intentions of USING their 700mhz spectrum).

They are two different techs, Wimax and LTE. I work for sprint and the down speeds vary, but the consensus is that LTE is faster. Our "4g" was built by clearwire, T-Mobiles upgraded 3g technology is just as fast on average.

lmao 4g is decent still not giving up my landline anytime soon but if you use a laptop often and need internet on the go or at work I highly recommend it. 4g is a lot faster then 3g from my own personal experience.